Bernhard Liebold
Bernhard Liebold (born November 25, 1843 in Roda , Saxony-Altenburg , † June 14, 1916 in Holzminden ) was a German architect , construction clerk , teacher , building contractor and politician .
Life
After his training, he became a teacher at the building trade school in Holzminden (today: HAWK Hochschule Hildesheim / Holzminden / Göttingen ). He was particularly interested in concrete construction and reinforced concrete .
Entrepreneur
In 1873 Liebold founded the construction business B. Liebold & Co. in Holzminden , and his brother Edmund Liebold took over the commercial management as a partner. In 1881 the Vorwohler Zementbaugesellschaft B. Liebold & Co. was founded in Vorwohle (today part of the municipality of Eimen ), in which the entrepreneur Godhard Prüssing also became a co-owner. It was the first factory in what is now Lower Saxony to produce Portland cement .
In 1877, a house (in fact a model house) was built entirely from rammed concrete on the property at Bahnhofstrasse 23 in Holzminden, and for a long time served as a shop for the Wiedbrauck music store. The first bridge made of stamped concrete was built in 1860.
In 1881 Liebold acquired the former Heye-Glashütte (previously owned by a Hamburg company) at Wilhelmshütte in Holzminden and founded a company for the production of cement . This had a siding via which the tailor-made, prefabricated timber for all falsework was sent across Germany, e.g. B. 1903/1904 the delivery of 120 double wagon loads of wood for the scaffolding and another 15 for the transport bridges over the arch for today's Friedensbrücke (also Syratalviadukt ) in Plauen . Liebold also published in numerous specialist publications on cement and cement applications in building construction. Its popularity increased and the company received orders for bridges, dams, railway lines with tunnels and bridges, locks, power plants, turbines, foundations in floating ground and in mining areas, including orders from the canton of Thurgau (Switzerland), the Netherlands and Katowice . Around 1890, land between Holzminden and Lüchtringen was acquired for the purpose of gravel extraction. In 1898, Bernhard Liebold also took over the planning for the construction of the port railway in Holzminden. However, the executing construction company was the construction company Dörries from Opperhausen near Kreiensen. In 1896 a concrete bridge with granite joints was completed over the Eyach near Bad Imnau and in 1899 the Georgsbrücke in Meiningen.
In 1901 the construction company B. Liebold & Co. was converted into a stock corporation, in which Liebold remained the sole member of the board . It became one of the well-known large construction companies of the time. The concrete plant in Holzminden particularly benefited from the increasing canalisation of the cities. Lüchtringen , then known as the “bricklayer village” , provided the main contingent of permanent workers. Together with the locally recruited workers, the workforce temporarily increased to 4,000.
Bernhard Liebold was also the managing director of the Deutsche Talsperren- und Wasserkraft-Verwertungsgesellschaft mbH , based in Hanover , from 1897 to 1916 .
1900–1901 the Bismarck Tower was built in Hagen and 1904–1912 the Bobertalsperre in Silesia . In 1902 Liebold AG built the Bockerlbrücke, which today spans the Isar as an industrial monument and is a landmark of the city of Landau. From 1907 to 1908 the Buhlener Viaduct was built on the Wabern – Brilon Wald railway line. In 1908 a dam was built in the Ruhr with a turbine house in Freienohl . In 1910/1911 civil engineering work on the road bridge in Schönebeck (Elbe) was carried out.
After completing his studies at the Technical University of Dresden in 1909 joined Max Liebold, son of Edmund Liebold, joined the company and received from 1912 procurators , two years later became deputy board member and after the death of Bernhard Liebold 1916 the Supervisory Board appointed member.
From 1911 to 1915 the Dill route between Siegen-Weidenau and Niederdielfen with the Niederdielfen viaduct and the Giersberg tunnel was built. From 1914 to 1917 work on the construction of the Simmern – Gemünden railway was carried out, where forced laborers from France, Italy and Russia were also used during the First World War .
In 1922, Habermann & Guckes AG (Arnold Habermann and Jean Guckes) , founded in 1908, took over B. Liebold & Co. AG and from then on operated as Habermann & Guckes - Liebold Aktiengesellschaft , based in Kiel . The company also operates successfully abroad. In 1925 the majority of the shares were taken over by the Braunschweig-based MIAG Mühlenbau und Industrie AG , which sold the stake again as a result of the global economic crisis in 1931. According to the resolution of the general meeting on May 21, 1940, the name Liebold disappeared from the company name, which was then only Habermann & Guckes AG .
During the Second World War , 23 Italian slave laborers were used for construction work in the company. In 1948 the company relocated to Hamburg .
In 1954, after a settlement procedure by Habermann & Guckes AG, the takeover by the construction company Wilhelm Müller-Altvatter in Stuttgart, founded in 1932, and the renaming to Neue Baugesellschaft Habermann & Guckes KG , based in Holzminden. In 1957 the company was taken over by Harro Müller-Altvatter and renamed to Betonwerk Müller-Altvatter KG, Stuttgart, branch in Holzminden . In 1962 the company Habermann & Guckes was officially deleted. In 1979 the headquarters of Müller-Altvatter KG was relocated from Stuttgart to Holzminden. Today's Müller-Altvatter Betonfertigteile GmbH (MÜVA Beton) in Holzminden, with 75 employees, is one of the direct successors to the former company B. Liebold & Co.
Politician
From 1887 to 1914, Bernhard Liebold was a member of the city council of Holzminden, from 1889 a member of the district council and from 1900 a member of the Braunschweig state parliament ; he also ran unsuccessfully for the 1903 Reichstag election .
Honorary positions and memberships
From 1890 until his death in 1916, Liebold was a member of the Presidium of the Braunschweig Chamber of Commerce . He was also a member of the District Railway Council in Frankfurt am Main, a representative of the civil engineering trade association and (as a co-founder) member of the board of the German Concrete Association (today: German Concrete and Construction Technology Association eV (DBV) in Berlin) and a member of the examination committee the building trade school Holzminden.
He was also a lay judge at the Holzminden District Court and a juror at the Braunschweig Regional Court .
Around 1900 he donated a pulpit carved from oak for the Luther Church in Holzminden.
Awards and honors
- Order of Henry the Lion , awarded by Albrecht of Prussia
- Prussian Order of the Red Eagle , awarded by Kaiser Wilhelm II.
- after 1907: Award of the honorary title of building officer by the regent of Braunschweig, Johann Albrecht
- In the city of Holzminden, the Baurat-Liebold-Straße is named after him.
Trivia
Irmgard von Stephanie (1895–2007) lived from 1912 to 1914 on the “Sylbecker Hof” of the Liebold family as a house daughter ; she lived in Berlin in 2005 and was the oldest German woman at the time .
Fonts
- The medieval wooden architecture in the former Lower Saxony. (with around 500 drawings) Knapp, Halle (Saale) 1874.
- Cement in its use in building construction and construction with cement-concrete for the production of fire-safe, healthy and cheap buildings of all kinds. Knapp, Halle (Saale) 1875.
- Newer agricultural buildings with special consideration of the Brunswick domain buildings. Knapp, Halle (Saale) 1875.
- The new continuous kilns for firing bricks, clay, chamotte cement and limestone. Knapp, Halle (Saale) 1876.
- The drying systems for brickworks. Knapp, Halle (Saale) 1877.
- Brickwork. Handbook for builders. CC Müller`sche Buchhandlung, Holzminden 1879.
- Wooden architecture. (Holzbau.) Pocket book for building craftsmen. Part II. CC Müller`sche Buchhandlung, 1893.
- B. Liebold & Co. Holzminden. Carried out tank construction work. 1898.
literature
- Matthias Seeliger: Archives of the construction company B. Liebold in the Holzminden city archive. (= Archive work in the district of Holzminden , Volume 8.) Heimat- und Geschichtsverein Holzminden eV, Holzminden 1995.
- Georg Maybaum: The construction company Liebold in Holzminden, innovations, operational structures and personal interrelations. In: Everyday life and change, practices of building and construction (proceedings of the Society for the History of Building Technology), Verlag Thelem Dresden 2017, pp. 139–156; ISBN 978-3-945363-76-8
Web links
Individual evidence
- ↑ http://www.sgv-flammersbach.de/sgv-chronik--dorfchronik-flammersbach/der-bahnbau-im-weital.html
- ↑ ftp://gw.winslow.bg/SPISANIA/MIBA/MIBA%20Spezial/Miba%20Spezial%2038%20Brucken,Mauern%20Und%20Portale.pdf ( page no longer available , search in web archives ) Info: The link was created automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Liebold, Bernhard |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German architect, building officer, building contractor and politician |
| DATE OF BIRTH | November 25, 1843 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Roda , Saxony-Altenburg |
| DATE OF DEATH | June 14, 1916 |
| Place of death | Holzminden |